Topic: General

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:11 AM

Overall IT spending has bottomed out, and 2004 and 2005 will see a "minimum of strong single-digit growth" over 2003 levels, according to industry analysts.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:10 AM

Sun Microsystems and AMD have signed a deal which will see Sun shipping AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire systems loaded with versions of its Solaris, Java or Linux.
The companies also plan to include long-term joint technology development to create future hardware and software offerings

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:06 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- High-tech's long, hard fall might be softening.
Tech-related job losses in the USA this year are expected to be less than half the 539,000 in 2002. That's because the industry has reached the bottom of its three-year slide, finds an annual economic study by the American Electronics Association released today.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:05 AM

Upon exiting a top Silicon Valley executive's 85-minute keynote presentation on the future of technology early Monday, a 20something Comdex attendee turned to a friend as though he'd heard it all before.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 12:01 PM

Cobol specialist Micro Focus International has enhanced its Windows Cobol development tool to achieve full integration with Microsoft's .Net Framework.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 12:00 PM

BT has activated the first phase of additional multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) nodes to extend its IP backbone in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 02:48 AM

Say "lean manufacturing" right now, and people listen. At the recent APICS show, a session titled Six Sigma Simplicity with Lean and ERP not only had a standing room-only crowd, but a few attendees--myself included--pulled up chairs in the hallway to catch this informative session. It's also the case that a survey of manufacturing executives that MSI recently conducted found lean was the No. 1 operating philosophy.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 02:46 AM

In a slack market for enterprise software, the distributed order management (DOM) space is growing. Sales of DOM applications, which are targeted on automating aspects of the order-to-cash cycle--such as order capture, customer fulfillment, and settlement--reached $4.9 billion in 2002, and should grow to $13.3 billion by 2007, says Boston-based analyst firm Yankee Group .

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:17 PM

TREND Micro is cautioning Internet users to avoid Worm_Mimail.F, a UPX compressed mass-mailing e-mail worm and denial of service (DoS) threat which pretends to be a meeting reminder from a colleague.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:12 PM

Multimedia messaging services provider Xpedite has had its messageREACH service chosen by financial services provider Admiral.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:10 PM

Throughout the hurricane season, images of business owners scrambling to prepare for a possible disaster are commonplace, and were seen again this past September with the appearance of Hurricane Isabel. But preparations can be equally intense--and involve more than just plywood--when your business focuses on the maintenance and repair operations (MRO) of industrial companies.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:07 PM

In another sign of a turnaround in the struggling semiconductor industry, Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday it should be profitable in the fourth quarter.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:05 PM

CALGARY (CP) - An Atco subsidiary has won a $7.5-million contract with the NATO stabilization force in Sarajevo to provide information systems support.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:04 PM

Document management solutions provider CC Data has launched its windream Microsoft Windows-based document management system in the UK.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:00 PM

The cyclic nature of automotive manufacturing and the industry's extreme throughput pressures demand that you develop comprehensive test programs quickly. Although there is no magic spell that conjures up test programs for automotive electronics, we at National Instruments have come up with some tips that can make the process more successful.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 11:57 AM

Dell Computer Corp. rewrote the supply chain management book in the 1990s with the Dell direct model, and now is looking to shake things up again. Part of the strategy for the computing giant is to attract the next generation of supply chain executives to its campus in Austin, Texas.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 01:38 AM

LOOKING at the enterprise computer market today, it is clear that two names - Intel and Microsoft - dominate with their technologies, setting what have become industry standards.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 01:36 AM

Finnish IT consultancy company Satama Interactive Oyj said on Thursday (6 November) that it had delivered an online direct marketing service for the Finnish business directory specialist Findexa.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, November 07, 2003 - 06:04 AM

Whom would you rather hunt: strangers or friends?
I'll choose friends any day. Why? Because then it becomes "personal."

Posted by : trraju on Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 03:01 PM

Andre Brassard keeps sending out rut has largely given up on the profession that employed him for a decade: writing software.
In his old department at Mindspeed Technologies Inc., most of the software engineers are gone. The work Brassard and his colleagues did is now largely done in Ukraine for one-quarter to one-third the cost.